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diff --git a/doc/todo/libravatar_EOL.mdwn b/doc/todo/libravatar_EOL.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..96d7502a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/libravatar_EOL.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Unfortunately libravatar is being shut down on 2018-09-01 +<https://blog.libravatar.org/posts/Libravatar.org_is_shutting_down_on_2018-09-01/> + +This is used in the comments plugin to get an avatar url. + +It would probably be best to remove the code that tries to use it, in case +its dns eventually gets taken over by something that causes some kind of +problem. (The shutdown page doesn't say what will happen to the DNS.) + +It might also be a good idea to filter out avatar urls in existing comments +that point to libravatar.org. --[[Joey]] |